Searching for blogs? Check out Technorati (
www.technorati.com). This site allows you to search by topic, title, keywords, tags, and even most popular. If you are specifically searching for blogs, then there's no question a site that is designed for blog searches is your answer. In Technorati, I can type in "library" and know that the results will pull up different blogs associated with the term. When I type "library" into Yahoo, it returns 395,000,000 results in which I would have to sift through in order to find blogs. Even when I typed "library blogs," I received over 44,000,000 results, and when I started clicking through them, I quickly found out that even many of those sites aren't actually blogs.
One blog that I found through my Technorati "library" search, is
www.readwriteweb.com. One specific post I read was titled "Library E-Book Checkouts Get a Major Boost." This blog discussed Amazon and Overdrive's collaboration to make E-Books/Kindle Books available to check out in libraries and schools.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/library_e-book_checkouts_get_a_major_boost.php
(***This reminded me of our guest speaker last week and our discovery of E-books--the technology, sites, tools, potential for school, etc. I know a lot of us were interested in how libraries and schools could actually check out books to users without running out of subscriptions and while using different devices.***)
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